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My review was written in June 1989 after watching the movie on Forum video cassette.

"Danger Zone II: Reaper's Revenge" is a worthy successor to the 1987 release, a model of crisp, well-scripted B-picture entertainment.

Filmmaker Jason Williams returns as the taciturn hero Wade Olson, whose biker nemesis Reaper (Robert Random) is released from prison on a legal technicality. Reaper kidnaps Olson's girlfriend Jane Higginson and our hero is on his trail.

Structured as a trek in the desert en route to a violent showdown, pic is interesting not only for colorful details of its biker milieu but a cleverly interwoven script by Dulany Ross Clements that links (almost mystically) the history and fates of disparate characters.

Olson keeps meeting people on the road who've also been wronged by Reape. They tag along with him to settle their own scores: Rainmaker (Barne Wms. Subkoski) who' been cursed and can't start rain anymore; Doug (Walter Cox) who needs the Reaper's signature to sell a Vegas building and save his wife and adopted daughter; and Francine (Alisha Das), introed to prostitution by Reaper, who also sold her baby daughter. It all ties together.

Acting, especially by the lowkey Random (who probably would kick Charles Manson out of the neighborhood for being too nice a guy) and the attractive female leads, is a plus. Daniel Yarussi's lensing on location is effective as is a hard rock soundtrack.